Duplicate Lamp Object

[gdford]

When I do a "save selection" from within the library manager on a "lamp" object it changes into an "Object" and no longer has all of the lamp object parameters. How can duplicate and rename an existing "Lamp" object?

[David Maudlin]

gdford:

To change an Object to a Lamp: open the library part via File > Libraries and Objects > Open Object..., then in the Main Library Part window click on the Select Subtype... button and change the subtype to Model Element > Electrical > Light. This will add the Light parameters to the part, but not the necessary code to the 3D Script (Light command) to be a light source. If you are comfortable with writing GDL, you can add the necessary code. If you are not conversant with GDL, then it will be simpler to keep the part as an Object for the model, and use one of the generic Lamp parts (in the General Light Sources folder) as a light source for the renderings.

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David

[Laszlo Nagy]

Or, open the Lamp Object for editing and use the File\Save As command to save it under a new name.
Then you will have a duplicate object with a different name.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the suggestions. I was wanting the duplicated LAMP object to retain its lighting characteristics. I discovered in the library manager that when you highlight an object there is a button activated to duplicate the object. This seems to work fine for creating a new object based on the original and retaining all the characteristics of the LAMP object. The next issue I have is that when I create a 2D drawing that I want to use as the plain view symbol and place it in the 2D Symbol hook, and I delete everything in the 2D script hook......nothing shows up in plan view. I can do this with any other object and it works fine, but not with a LAMP object. What is different about the LAMP object that having the 2D Script blank it does not then execute what is in the 2D Symbol hook?